‘We have been ignored for too long!’ says nurses’ leader Cullen ahead of December...

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‘We have been ignored for too long!’ says nurses’ leader Cullen ahead of December strikes   ‘WHILE billions of pounds is being spent on temporary measures...

PETROL £1 A LITRE – as economic crisis deepens

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The average UK price of unleaded petrol yesterday went over £1 per litre for the first time, as oil reached almost $100 a barrel...
Nurses on a demonstration fighting against the cutting of nurses bursaries – there is now a shortfall of 35,000 nurses

Restore student nurses bursaries

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NHS England has launched what they called ‘their biggest recruitment drive in history’ in an attempt to fill the 35,000 shortfall in nurses. However,...
Junior doctors marched in their thousands a week ago throuhh London and Glasgow, in opposition to the MTAS scheme, defending their jobs and the NHS

JUNIOR DOCTORS QUIT TALKS – scrap the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS)!

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Junior doctors have withdrawn from the government established review body set up to try to resolve the failures of the flawed and...

‘Chagos Two’ being held on rendition Island

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‘We call on all trade unionists and anti-war campaigners to support this good cause, Chagos Islands Community Association chairwoman, Hengride Permal, said yesterday. ‘We need...

Israel’s Blockade Has Collapsed Healthcare

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ISRAEL’S ongoing blockade of northern Gaza has brought the healthcare system to near-total collapse, with almost no remaining services, according to the World Health...

Israeli forces storm Gaza school and kill fifteen Palestinians!

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AT LEAST 15 Palestinians were killed when Israeli forces stormed a Gaza school sheltering displaced families, amid a wave of attacks across the besieged...

Merkel Angers Greek Parties

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s telephone call to the Greek President Karolos Papoulias last Friday, when she asked for a referendum to be held on...

Palestinian families stranded in Jordan!

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ELEVEN Palestinian families from the Gaza Strip remain stranded in Jordan after Israeli authorities obstructed the return of children who had undergone successful cochlear...

More Leaving Than Joining Nursing

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RESPONDING to the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures showing more nurses leaving than joining the profession, Janet Davies, Chief Executive and General...

‘ISSUE A CALL TO ARMS AND ORGANISE A GENERAL STRIKE!’ – airport workers urge...

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‘UNITE said they were going to call a strike and they should have gone ahead with it. They said they were going to, but...
Gambians told News Line there were still 80 people on death row in their country awaiting execution by order of the President

Gambians March On Downing Street

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OVER 200 Gambians and supporters marched from Parliament to the Commonwealth Headquarters in Pall Mall calling for the ousting of President Alhaji JJJ Jerehmeh...
A determined march of 20,000 protestors took place in London last Saturday demanding an end to the occupation of Palestine

HAMAS OFFERS AMNESTY – while Abbas decides to rule by decree

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HAMAS yesterday released dozens of Fatah security commanders and Fatah officials detained during the past week in Gaza, and offered an amnesty to other...

BALPA FIGHTING BA’s WAGE CUT PLANS

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BALPA (the British Airline Pilots Association) is going to the High Court in London on Monday to fight a British Airways (BA’s) strike ban. BALPA...

Joint strike action agreed – at the TUC Congress

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THE TUC Congress yesterday instructed the TUC General Council to support and coordinate joint strike action against attacks on jobs, pensions, pay and public...

Zionist snipers shoot three at Nasser Hospital

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THREE Palestinians sheltering inside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s biggest health centre, were shot dead by Zionist snipers yesterday, with another...
The RMT has consistently fought to stop the  privatisation of the Rail network in Britain

RENATIONALISE THE RAIL – demands RMT rail union

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Rail union RMT yesterday called for the renationalisation of the railways. A union statement said: ‘The post-Christmas chaos caused by major engineering overruns on the...

Tackle Poverty Urges Bma!

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BMA DOCTORS want urgent action to tackle poverty and improve public health services after an official report found a strong connection between deprivation and...

‘Stop Israeli ethnic cleansing’ – demands Hamas

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HAMAS has called on the international community to take immediate action to ‘stop the crime of forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and massacres’ carried out...
WRP candidate Arjinder Thiara and a group of his supporters are determined to defend the NHS and keep Ealing Hospital open

Mobilise unions to save Ealing Hospital – says WRP’s Arjinder Thiara

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THE VOTE Arjinder Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital workers and patients yesterday morning, following...

Greek seafarers strike action

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GREEK seafarers went on a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday, demanding the signing of a new national collective agreement with pay rises of...

BA Sellout!

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THE UNION Unite claimed yesterday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to tens of thousands of its cabin crew...
Clashes between Greek workers and the capitalist state are taking place around the clock every day as workers defend their rights

Ecb Plan Sets Off Germany’s Alarm Bells!

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THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...
Teachers on the pensions strike with a message for Tory education secretary Michael Gove

‘FREE SCHOOLS A DISGRACE’ – says NUT’s Blower

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DISMANTLING our state education system and parcelling it off to unelected, unaccountable sponsors is a disgrace,’ Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union...
Police and bailiffs forcibly evict tenants in Brixton, scattering their possessions on the street – enforced debt collection is soaring

Enforced debt collection thousands of complaints

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ENFORCED debt collection, aggressive bailiffs, aggressive customer service tactics, breaches of confidentiality and hiking the size of the debt are just some of thousands...
Firefighters outside Central Hall Westminster yesterday before going on to lobby MPs against plans to make savage cuts to the fire service

‘CUTS WILL COST LIVES!’ – FBU leader Wrack warns

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‘CUTS will cost lives,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Matt Wrack insisted yesterday. He was addressing a 500-strong rally in Westminster of FBU delegations...

Israeli bombers target schools

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THE Palestinian Hamas resistance movement strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, describing the...
Cleaners outside the blockaded Finance Ministry building in central Athens

Athens Cleaners Defiant!

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SOME 1,500 workers marched through the Athens city centre on Thursday evening, in a militant demonstration of solidarity with the nine-month-old fight of the...
Baby Zoe and mother outside Chase Farm Hospital on the 112th day of the picket of the hospital to keep it open in defence of the NHS. Everybody on the picket line supported the doctors’ struggle to defend their pensions

Doctors Strike Today!

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DOCTORS are on strike in defence of their pensions all over the country today. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chair of the BMA’s council, said: ‘Doctors are...

MAYHEM THIS WEEKEND Winter flu epidemic creating hospital chaos–SAM

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AS TEMPERATURES plummet the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) anticipates ‘mayhem this weekend’ with the winter flu epidemic kicking in, affecting hundreds of hospitals...

Trump Blasts G7 Summit

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AFTER departing early from the G7 summit in Quebec for Singapore, President Donald Trump called on US representatives not to endorse the joint communique...

Blair Has Questions To Answer

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THE question and answer session with Prime Minister Blair at the GMB conference yesterday just illustrated the unbridgeable gulf between him and the working...

XMAS DAY SACKINGS! – RMT pledges taking action

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RMT general secretary Mick Cash yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ the Christmas Day sackings of 2,727 City Link workers. The announcement said that parcel delivery firm...
Demonstration last June demanding the release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo Bay prison

THERE MUST BE NO COVER-UP – Binyam police probe must go right to top

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Police are to investigate whether an MI5 officer was complicit in the torture of ex-Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, it was announced yesterday. The Attorney General,...

A DATABASE FOR ALL – Blair plans ultra modern police state

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...

FORWARD WITH GENERAL STRIKE! – Dave Wiltshire calls for action at WRP May Day...

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DAVE WILTSHIRE, the Secretary of the All Trades Unions Alliance told the WRP’s May Day rally: ‘From this May Day meeting we send revolutionary...

Strike Breaker Gove Is Condemned!

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Schools unions have reacted angrily to a letter to heads from education secretary Gove, advocating strike breaking during their June 30 pensions action. His letter...

GREECE PLEADS FOR TIME TO REPAY LOANS – ‘EU exit would be a catastrophe!’

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THE EU-IMF-ECB-imposed Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, on Saturday called for more time to carry out savage austerity cuts, warning that a Greek exit...
Civil servants demonstrating outside parliament against wage cuts and mass sackings by the Brown government

HUGE JOBLESS RISE! – warning of 3 million unemployed

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The number of unemployed people in the UK rose by another 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, according to the latest government...

RMT SUPPORTS VESTAS OCCUPATION! – Crow calls for nationalisation

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RMT leader Bob Crow yesterday called for the nationalisation of the occupied Vestas wind turbine factory at Newport, Isle of Wight. In their occupation statement...

PROSECUTE P&O FERRIES – RMT condemns Tories for refusal to act

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SEAFARERS union RMT has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to demand a meeting to discuss the government’s failure to...
Morale was high on the  picket line at Kings Cross

RMT action supported by Londoners

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‘ROCK SOLID,’ said RMT leader Bob Crow about yesterday’s and today’s 48-hour strike by London Underground RMT and TSSA members. Thousands of Tube drivers and...
After bursting through police lines students took over the whole of Kingsway in Holborn yesterday

100,000 March To Parliament

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Tens of thousands of students and youth marched from University of London Union (ULU) near Euston down to parliament yesterday lunchtime, shouting against the...

£2,000 A Year Price Rise For Meals-On-Wheels!

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HARROW Unison local government branch has launched a campaign against Harrow Council’s plans to increase its charges for its Meals on Wheels service by...
A joyful municipal workers contingent – placard reads: ‘Down with the junta of PASOK’

‘Down With The Pasok Junta’ Shout Greek Workers

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50,000 Greek civil servants and public sector workers on Wednesday staged a successful 24-hour national strike and a big march through Athens against the...